New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-15
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Dexter Gilbert Poet No. AIT. Herring Onio April IS,
iss7Our post at It's recent meeting discussed your nre
m0usly in favor OF service pension OF 50 month; II
this cannot be had, then inc dependent nn VIII 20
there large number OF soldiers deserving
pension who unable to obtain one under the PEN
sion laws as they are now
think there exists great injustice to volunteer off,
GERS Mo Of h .asy o
re-ensted at scettsborough. Ala. in January 1894 I
wss 1s commission as . eatspsnt had re-
ceved that time $780, leaving balance OF $40 due
clai way TO accept promotion and lose the $40 We
supposed the time that discharge to receive COM
mission honorable and We would receive the
balance OF the veteran bounty just the same as We had
think legislation on this subject Is necessary
That unpaid bounty with interest from the close
81 ss NJ tHi' IN n
one time but guess dsd II the money mad been Que
John Alderman. Adtutant.
NEGLECT OF AN IMPORTANT CLASS.
Pomeroy, Ohio July 9.-You DO not ask In your
list Of questions submitted to Grand Army posts ho.
OF the counryi" Nor do you ask, "How
aSs Ss Of S and
being out 10 people who desire to take child to
letters received by you necessity Of
relieving the widow. from lives Of want drudgery
two or three soldiers widows who unable to labor
and in county home there are from seven to ten sol
diers orphans They are overlooked In the talk about
pensions the wspapers though have doubt that
much OF this neglect Is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. H. Brew
ster. Commander Post 54S.
VIEW OF FOUR AND HALF YEARS MAN.
Big Flats, N Y, May pas veteran Of the late
war, would that II me Government is financially
year during the war should receive pension of -
per month as service pension Those that passed
pension OF S2 per month and for wounds and disabl
ty an amount TO correspond. In addition.
thiuk you will agree with me that the Sl3 per month
which the soldiers received paltry for their
services and remember that that deprecated more
t,ap half hsf0 ore IA war
As for my own experiences served four and q half
had good farm owned by my widowed mother. which
to ruin in that time. am carrying Mimic ball in
that prison Florence, g. G., from which prison
made my escape to knoIyilie Tenn NY ease Is on:
pension its defenders-C. H. Reason.
LIFE IN THE FIELD DISABLED ALL
ottawa. Kansas. July 2s.-A thousand thanks to TIA
ions aud the mana ISLANDERS and insults which have
been heaped on us may come something approaching
good citizen object to- and which our Government
cannot afford 10 refuse
ment has generous than any on the face OF
earth but IL has paid TOO great premium for hos.
bride and manhood could not make soldiers all have
good hospital records good soldier avoided tie hospl-
la as he would the plague. and went there only when
forced the men with poor hospital records who
fought tbs battles endured the hardshPs and pryaons
many used mp their stock OF vitality and
the prime OF lie Many went honestly believing
that tney had been by their exposures But
II you should ape the state OF Kansas with nnetooh
cemb you would ind only few capable OF hard manual
labor the majority OF those who are pensioned for
wounds will rell YOU they are disabled moro by their
their wounds Give us then service pension OF Sl2 per
enough to get a commission and i've times as much pay
while the army that why ne should draw
The gan,shOt woGnd b In my right SoSIs
Ger General NI Sherman or Sheridan This paving
pensions according TO RANK smell: 700 mucn OF astoc
ian who gave his country four solid OF service.
SS wso .
private only gets 81 the same wound after he got to oe
common sense A nsighbor of this man who started
captains shoulder straps on from his native state
the front; drilled fought day. yet be gea
$40 for bis commission and hospital record Ban
God, never knew one They may die Of want BY the
behind The the s,r. S Ssa9q bu s
cannot make a psuper OF the who carries in hid
breast the proud Of having pered his life
'front.' us rank trying to do their fu share Of the worlds
today-snd they are in their PLACES on the farm.
halls They asking charity or alms" from
they know that they cannot be penssned dis
abilities: while they know that they can do without .
Ppsssrdy while they know that every dollar amy
try pays for gallant, loyal patriotic service VIII return
could he induced TO accept pension If it not fos
their delight the copperheads squrm and
tea their hair every time soldier gets dollar; an4
also for their patriotic desire assist the legislators and
statesmen In solving that most vexing and difcule
question, How to relieve the United states Treasury
OF its surplus"-samuel R. Beckwith lPennsylvsnia
Bucktails.
DESERVING CASE OF GALLANT SOLDIER.
John NJ Moseley Post Dexter City Ohio Juno 80 1887.
i voice the sentiment OF this Post In the fo
lowing answers: % Yes (2) Yes, $l2 per month for
all who served three months or over 80 No. In voice
OF thunder: No, No with a big n"
"a None OF this Post being lawmakers, We have No
swer only shall endeavor Ia the future TO vote
for who remember that wcswere, few years ago.